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The perfect insect appears in January, and evidently 
frequents high mountains between 6,000 and 7,000 feet 
above sea-level. 
NOTOREAS ISCHNOCYMA. 
(Notoreas ischnocyma, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1905, 221; 
Notoreas isoleuca, Huds., N.Z. Moths, 72, pl. viii. 27, nec. 
Meyr.) 
(Plate XV., fig. 30 9.) 
This little species has been taken in the South Island 
on the Craigieburn Range, near Castle Hill. 
The expansion of the wings is about % inch. All the wings 
are very dark blackish-brown; the fore-wings have five slender 
wavy white transverse lines. The hind-wings have three white 
transverse lines, the first near the base, the second near the 
middle, and the third, which is very slender and considerably 
broken, near the termen. The cilia of all the wings are white, 
barred with blackish-brown. 
This species is distinguished from the allied forms by 
the slender waved second line. 
The perfect insect appears in January, and frequents 
stunted vegetation at an elevation of about 5,600 feet 
above the sea-level. 
NOTOREAS NIPHOCRENA. 
(Pasithea niphocrena, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi., 88. 
niphoerena, ib. xviii., 184.) 
Notoreas 
(Plate XIV., fig. 42 @, 43 9.) 
This very bright-looking species has occurred in the 
North Island on Mount Hector and Mount Dundas, Tara- 
rua Range. In the South Island it has been found on the 
Mount Arthur Tableland, Arthur’s Pass, and Bold Peak, 
Lake Wakatipu, at elevations of about 4,500 feet above the 
sea-level. 
The expansion of the wings of the male is 14 inches; of 
the female barely 1 inch. The fore-wings are very bright red- 
dish-brown; there is a small basal patch speckled with blackish 
and a slightly darker sub-basal area; the median band is bounded 
by two very conspicuous blackish-edged white lines; the first 
waved convex towards the termen; the second also waved, with 
a strong projection near the middle more pronounced in the 
female; there is a wavy reddish-yellow subterminal line. The 
hind-wings are bright orange-brown with wavy darker brown 
basal, median and terminal bands. The cilia of all the wings 
are reddish-brown, very indistinctly barred with whitish. 
This species has a strong superficial resemblance to 
the common Dasyuris partheniata, and as it frequents simi- 
lar localities, it is, perhaps, sometimes passed over for that 
insect. It may, however, be immediately distinguished by 
the pectinated antennae of the male, and the much smaller 
size of the female. In addition, there are also detailed 
differences in the markings. 
The perfect insect appears in January, and frequents 
open country on high mountains. It is evidently a rare 
species. 
Described and figured from specimens in the Dominion 
Museum. 

X.—THE GEOMETRIDAE. 
NOTOREAS SIMPLEX. 
(Notoreas simplex, Huds., N.Z. Moths, 74, pl. viii., 26.) 
(Plate XIV., fig. 44 9.) 
A single female specimen of this species was captured 
on Mount Arthur, near Nelson. 
The expansion of the wings is about 14 inches. The fore- 
wings are pale ochreous; there are four broad black transverse 
bands near the base, edged with white, and separated from one 
another by yellow spaces of almost equal width; the outermost 
of these bands is situated a little more than halfway between 
the base and termen; the last two bands become obsolete before 
they reach the costa; there are no other markings, except a 
blackish shading on termen near tornus, which is traversed by 
an obscure paler wavy subterminal line; the cilia are white 
barred with blackish and with a blackish basal line. The hind- 
wings are bright ochreous, without markings; the cilia are 
ochreous, 
It is possible, that when the male is known, this species 
will have to be referred to Dasyuris. 
The perfect insect appears in January. 
The type-specimen was taken on the mountain-side, at 
an elevation of about 4,000 feet. 
NOTOREAS FEROX. 
(Fidonia ferox, Butl., Proce. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, 392, pl. xlii., 
8; Pasithea ferox, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi., 88; Noto- 
reas ferox, ib. xviii., 184.) 
(Plate XV., fig. 34 9.) 
This species has occurred in the South Island at Castle 
Hill, West Coast Road, and on Mount Earnslaw, at the 
head of Lake Wakatipu. 
The expansion of the wings is about 1 inch. The fore-wings 
are dull greyish-brown, with numerous fine, wavy, dusky lines 
and a faint discal dot. The hind-wings are orange-yellow speckled 
with black near the base; there is a rather broad straight 
transverse black band near the middle, followed by a much finer 
wavy line; there are three fine, wavy lines parallel with the 
termen, and the termen itself is finely bordered with black. 
The perfect insect appears in February, and frequents 
open country on the mountain side at about 4,500 feet 
above the sea-level. It seems to be a very rare species, 
but might easily be mistaken, when on the wing, for a 
pale specimen of the common JN. brephos. 
NOTOREAS BREPHOS. 
(Fidonia brephosata, Walk., Cat. xxiv., 1037; Butl., Cat. N.Z. 
Lep. pl. iii., 14; Larentia catocalaria, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. 
v., 62; Fidonia brephos, Feld., Reis. Nov. pl. exxix., 5; 
Pasithea brephos, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi., 89; Noto- 
reas brephos, ib. xviii., 184; Pasithea zopyra, Meyr., Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xvi., 89.) q 
(Plate XV., figs. 32, 33 @, varieties.) 
This very pretty species is common, and generally 
distributed throughout the country. 
The expansion of the wings is about 1 inch. The fore-wings 
are bluish-grey; there is a wavy black line near the base, two 
similar lines enclosing a very broad median band, with a black 
